Guillermo Cabrera Infante : two islands, many worlds
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Guillermo Cabrera Infante : two islands, many worlds
(The Texas Pan American series)
University of Texas Press, 1996
1st ed
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: cloth ISBN 9780292776951
Description
A native Cuban who has lived in London since 1966, Guillermo Cabrera Infante is, in every sense, a multilingual and multicultural author. Equally at ease in both Spanish and English, he has distinguished himself with daring and innovative novels, essays, short stories, and film scripts written in both languages. His work has won major literary awards in France, Italy, and Spain, as well as a Guggenheim fellowship in the United States. This biography is the first comprehensive exploration of the life and works of Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with the author and his family and friends, as well as extensive study of both published and unpublished works, Raymond D. Souza creates an intimate portrait of Cabrera Infante and the cultural and political milieus that shaped his writing, including Three Trapped Tigers (Tres tristes tigres), View of Dawn in the Tropics (Vista del amanecer en el tropico), Infante's Inferno (La Habana para un Infante difunto), Holy Smoke, A Twentieth Century Job (Un oficio del siglo XX), Writes of Passage (Asi en la paz como en la guerra), and Mea Cuba."
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: pbk ISBN 9780292777088
Description
A native Cuban who has lived in London since 1966, Guillermo Cabrera Infante is, in every sense, a multilingual and multicultural author. Equally at ease in both Spanish and English, he has distinguished himself with daring and innovative novels, essays, short stories, and film scripts written in both languages. His work has won major literary awards in France, Italy, and Spain, as well as a Guggenheim fellowship in the United States.
This biography is the first comprehensive exploration of the life and works of Guillermo Cabrera Infante. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with the author and his family and friends, as well as extensive study of both published and unpublished works, Raymond D. Souza creates an intimate portrait of Cabrera Infante and the cultural and political milieus that shaped his writing, including Three Trapped Tigers (Tres tristes tigres), View of Dawn in the Tropics (Vista del amanecer en el tropico), Infante's Inferno (La Habana para un Infante difunto), Holy Smoke, A Twentieth Century Job (Un oficio del siglo XX), Writes of Passage (Asi en la paz como en la guerra), and Mea Cuba.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. A Distant Place
2. A Room Without a View
3. A Momentary Splendor
4. The Apprentice Storyteller
5. Citizen Cain
6. The Elusive Tiger
7. A Nocturnal Rhapsody
8. Lowry's Ghost
9. Images of History
10. The Vertigo of Memory
11. The Demonic Heart of Nature
12. The Essayistic Narrator
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Photographs
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